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...rogress of medieval Icelandic culture from an honor-centered pagan past to law-focused and orderly Christian future. ...

"I will grant it thee, father-in-law," said Flosi, "for that alone wilt thou ask which will make my honour great ...," said Flosi, "that I will do according to the word of Hall, my father-in-law, and other of the worthiest men, that he and others of the best men on each ...

...in the family and contemporary sagas, as well as drawing on the ''Grágás'' law code, to explore 13th-century attitudes to the problem of male sexuality. S ...

...not get them back, and yet he was a great lawyer, but I know little about law." She answered, "Hrut pushed that matter through rather by boldness than by law; besides, my father was old, and that was why men thought it better not to ...

* [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...

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..., where the practices are explained with indications on customs or the old law from the time of the sagas, on the other hand in words and actions of perso ...

...aphorically the extinguishing of the light of Njáll’s eyes, the process of law is once again incapacitated, and the resulting courthearing reaches deadloc ...

Earl Sigurd bade to his feast at Yule Earl Gilli, his brother- in-law, out of the Southern isles; he had to wife Swanlauga, Earl Sigurd's sister; ...t if they misbehaved themselves oftener, then he let them be judged by the law; and from this one may mark what a king he must have been. ...

...be foredoomed that this faith shall make its way, then it will be taken as law at the Althing, and then all the chiefs out of the districts will be there. ...k," says Gest, "though it may be fated that others shall make Christianity law; but it is here as the saying runs, 'No tree falls at the first stroke.'" ...

...-law. He was slow to take the duty on him, and said it was harder to go to law with Flosi than with any other ten men. ...next of kin. Thou handest it over to me by law, and I take it from thee by law." ...

* [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...

...iages are reflecting the “epic threefold repetition”. This repetition is a law of composition employed by Axel Olrik, indicating that the narrative materi ...

...agan ethics are influenced by the doctrine of Natural Religion and Natural Law, as seen in the Prose Edda; the presence of ethical pagan ancestors arguabl ...

* [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...

* [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...

* [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...

* [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...

"That is right and good law," says Mord, "but how does the matter stand if Gunnar has laid the slaying "Thou speakest nothing but what is law," says Mord, "though it is hard to abide by it." ...

...e his sword against his attackers, he made of him an embodiment of the new law in action. Höskuldr rejects the old code of ‘eye for eye, tooth for toot ...e his sword against his attackers, he made of him an embodiment of the new law in action. Höskuldr rejects the old code of ‘eye for eye, tooth for toot ...